When “Experience” is Conformity, and “Toughness” Insecurity
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | No Comments »When I talk to friends who are worried about an Obama candidacy and possible administration, I hear the following: Americans will not elect a black man Obama is inexperienced and soft The optimism of Obama and his supporters seems dangerously naive Obama is simply ...
The Viability of Obama, Part II — The Meaning of Toughness
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | 2 Comments »A year ago I wrote a post called The Viability of Obama, in response to to friends who thought that the United States was not ready to elect a black president (and long before Obama was thought of as anything ...
Obama Trades Nomination for Malt Liquor and Fried Chicken
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | No Comments »I have the sense that Clinton thinks she can take the nomination from Obama the way Manhattan was taken from the Indians. He is a black man after all. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtal0bsnJTQ]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Obama Trades Nomination for Malt Liquor and Fried Chicken", url: ...
Toughen Up?
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | 2 Comments »James Wolcott and NYCweboy tell the Hillary haters to "toughen up"--politics is a rough game. The corollary here is that Clinton and Obama aren't really different; they "both" played rough. It's all the same. Nonsense. Calling for decency and intellectual honesty ...
Obama and the Art of Political Self-Defense
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | No Comments »Dick Morris has a new bit about the need for Obama to attack Hillary via surrogates. I don't entirely agree, although I made a similar call in this post. Here's the difference: if the Obama campaign were to bring up Norman ...
The Deaning of Obama (Almost)
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama, Of Interest | 2 Comments »What's happening to Obama in the press, incidentally, is remarkably similar to what happened to Howard Dean (with the exception that Obama is less vulnerable to negative coverage). Dean, like Obama, initially received positive press--not directly, but as a by-product ...
Bill! It’s for you!
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | No Comments »As much as I loathe Dick Morris, this is a really succinct dose of reality and it ends with a great suggestion: The next time Hillary uses the recycled red phone ad, counter with one of your own. When the ...
Why Math will not be undone by Momentum Ex Machina
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | No Comments »From Jonathan Alter, one of the few journalists who hasn't tucked tail as a response to Hillary's victim gambit: even do-overs in Michigan and Florida will not catch her up in the popular vote or pledged delegate count, and superdelegates ...
Hillary Clinton’s Rhetorical Offenses (and why words matter)
Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | 6 Comments »To believe that such talk really ever came out of people's mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say; when it was ...
Hillary is With It
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Hillary | No Comments »I watch these about seven times a day: [youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=HxtN0u23Tdc] [youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=IA8Wy51Ionk] [youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=5FvyGydc8no]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Hillary is With It", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/hillary/hillary-is-with-it/" });
